Year: 2020

Washington University junior Ayana Klein, founder of edtech startup 3DuxDesign, shares her story as a student entrepreneur and how WashU led her to success.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement is launching an online series, “This Civic Moment.”

Blood tests for antibodies against the COVID-19 virus are becoming more available, but no test is perfectly reliable, so results must be carefully interpreted, Washington University School of Medicine experts say.

This Memorial Day, instead of praising the sacrifice of essential workers, it would be really nice if we could just protect each other.

As part of its response to the COVID-19 crisis, Washington University in St. Louis has partnered with Park Central Development and St. Louis Food Angels to deliver groceries to nearby families. The program also connects residents to important community resources.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling more than $5 million to study two types of parasitic worm infection that cause devastating illness in millions of people worldwide.

Washington University School of Medicine is one of more than 30 genome sequencing hubs worldwide participating in a study to sequence the DNA of young, healthy adults and children who develop severe COVID-19 despite having no underlying medical problems.

The ensuing downward spiral in US-China relations would make everyone a loser in a dangerous game that might no longer be controlled by anyone.

It is time to bring this kind of real-time outcome data to America’s addiction crisis and make it available to the public. It’s the only way of knowing if what we’re doing to address the problem is making a difference.

If we truly wish to support working families — during this pandemic and beyond — we must recognize that limited access to quality child care is one of the greatest obstacles.